Nigeria and Mali Lead West Africa in DDoS Attacks for late 2024, says NETSCOUT

AI can be a double-edged sword, and African businesses must ensure they leverage its benefits for better protection.

DDoS attacks are taking place continuously all over the globe, and so-called ‘bad actors’ are relentlessly improving their attack methods.

Embedded Internet-of-Thing (IoT) botnets are not a new phenomenon - we've seen them leveraged to launch distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, send spam, engage in man-in-the-middle (MitM) credentials hijacking, and other malicious activities for several years. For instance, a few years ago, a 75,000-strong botnet comprised of embedded devices - consumer broadband routers, in that instance - was found to be launching DDoS attacks. We routinely see IoT botnets comprised of webcams, DVRs, cable television set-top boxes, satellite set-top boxes, and more used to launch DDoS attacks.

A new consumer survey concluded that two-thirds of Americans believe themselves to be tech savvy, although their actions with regard to online security indicate otherwise - with millennials being the worst offenders.

The combination of the information shift to cloud computing and the energy move to the smart grid is creating a massive headache for governments according to?Bryan Hamman of Arbor Networks.

Arbor Networks was invited to collaborate on the whitepaper "The Zettabyte Era: Trends and Analysis", by Cisco.?

"The news is not good. The detection deficit is getting worse," says Bryan Hamman, territory manager for sub-Saharan Africa at Arbor Networks.

Arbor Networks Annual Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report provides a rare insight into the nature of today's network security threats.

Arbor Networks Inc. has introduced version 2.1 of Arbor Networks Spectrum.

A business' reputation now rests on how well it has armed, defended, revealed and responded to a cyber attack according to Bryan Hamman of Arbor Networks.

Bryan Hamman of Arbor Networks in sub-Saharan Africa explains?why a?continuing and growing threat to service availability is (DDoS) attacks.